Alameda’s Planning Board stopped short of recommending the city enact rent controls Monday, opting instead to ask the City Council to consider setting up a task force to study whether people are being …

Welcome to this week’s edition of The Broad Brush, your two-sentence news review. Here are your headlines for this week. The Planning Board considered design plans for 52 new homes and 37 condominiums …

THE STORY: The Alameda County Waste Management Authority – aka Stopwaste.org – has been considering a $9.55 per residential unit fee to pay for the disposal of old paint, motor oil and other hazardous …

BART’s leaders could ask voters for money to help them pay for new train cars and to modernize the rail line’s stations, Alameda’s BART board director told local Kiwanians during a luncheon Wednesday. …

Welcome to this week’s edition of The Broad Brush, your weekly, two-sentence news review. Here’s what happened this week. Alameda lost a high-profile grant that was supposed to help the Island bounce …

It was early March, and city staffers were scrambling to prepare for a workshop at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Club where Mayor Marie Gilmore and the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley were …